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We didn't really think much of it when a rumor started going around that Brittney Palmer was on her way out of the UFC. There were some vague Twitter messages of bad luck, and Dana gave her some flack over screwing up which network was broadcasting UFC Live, but surely he wouldn't just toss her, right?
Well, kids, no official announcement has been made, but we don't really expect one either. Brittney Palmer is no longer listed as an Octagon Girl. If it turns out that Anonymous did this, we'll never forgive them. Until then, we'll mourn for our favorite Octagon Girl (except Ben; he'll never get over Arianny).
We wish Ms Palmer well in her future, which is suddenly more open for her to concentrate more on her art interests.
Thanks to Tracy Lee/Combat Lifestyle, Omar Gomez Photography, Fighters Only magazine, and any other photographers who we will identify later when they send us a salty email.
** UPDATE ** Brittney's portrait has mysteriously reappeared on the UFC site, so take from that what you will. No official word about her employment status has been had, but if we see her at the next show, we'll call it a win. (They still haven't fixed Chandella's age, though.)


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday's Tip - Begin at the Beginning
That is when I realized starting from the beginning was necessary to understand more fully the information being presented.
The mistake was concentrating on connecting family members without understanding the basics about the Mennonite people and their beliefs. Back to the Google drawing board to find resources about this faith and it's people.
The first website discovered was Mennonite Church USA and their link Who Are the Mennonites? The site answers basic questions and provides a short video.
Most importantly there is a glossary to terms found throughout Mennonite genealogy. These have been extremely helpful in deciphering relationships and church affiliation.
The lesson learned is when researching a specific area, religion, or government you are unfamiliar with begin at the beginning. I wasted most of the day trying to connect dots and ending up with a huge headache.
For those with Mennonite heritage here are additional sites.
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Mennonite Church USA
Mennonite Church Canada - Genealogy & Historical Research Links
Mennonite Church USA Archives' photostream - flickr
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Fantastic tip, Deb. It really does help to understand the history or culture of a group such as a religion, geographic area, etc. It can make all the difference in the world!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Stephanie! Greatly appreciated your comments. Funny how sometimes we forget the basics when researching our family history!ReplyDelete
Exactly! Just another reason that I love your blog. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the reminder, Deb. I can't tell you how many times I have beat my head against the wall just because I didn't take the time to look at the history of the area or the religious culture.ReplyDelete
Sherri-you are very welcome! Sometimes I get so caught up in the hunt the basics are forgotten.ReplyDelete
Thank you Deb, I agree understanding the basics on a group of people is the first place to start.ReplyDelete

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Here in New Mexico, we're used to swimming up to our necks in folk art. From traditional punched tin and Catholic religious pieces to handmade textiles and ceramics by Native American artists, the stuff is everywhere. It's been a significant part of our thriving art economy for at least the last century.
It's rare, though, to get a comprehensive glimpse of folk art being created in other parts of the planet. Thankfully, Santa Fe boasts an exceptional museum, the Museum of International Folk Art, designed to expose New Mexicans to the exceptional diversity of global folk art. Likewise, this weekend, you can get an even better idea of the scope of folk cultures around the world by visiting the third annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.
But before we dive into all that, what is folk art, anyway? This is a notoriously hard question to answer. "Folk art is handmade," says Ruth McCutcheon, executive director of this year's market. "It represents traditional culture. It's the artistic expression of daily life. Folk art objects can be utilitarian, everything from plates to cups to bedspreads, but it always involves an artistic element passed down through generations."
This is what makes it so appealing, even to people who aren't immersed in the art world. The astonishing success of the Folk Art Market is living proof of this. "The market started in 2004," says McCutcheon. "That first time around, the organizers expected four to five thousand people—12,000 came. Last year, we had 18,000."
It's anyone's guess how many will show up this year, so try to get there early. And don't come expecting to find examples of New Mexican folk art. As McCutcheon points out, there are lots of local stores and at least two other major Santa Fe art festivals where you can find plenty of that. The Folk Art Market is designed to highlight the very best folk art being created outside the United States. You'll find beaded collars from Equador, sand paintings from Botswana, wooden figurines from Poland, woodblock prints from Brazil, drums from Nigeria, opera masks from China, sequined flags from Haiti, embroidered clothing from Kyrgyzstan and much, much more, all of the finest quality, created by 100 artists from 33 different countries.
McCutcheon is quick to emphasize, however, that the market is about more than shopping. This year, the organizers have put together a lengthy roster of educational programs and live entertainment as well. The project is also designed to foster economic and cultural sustainability for folk artists worldwide. With this in mind, the organizers offer generous financial aid to attending artists, and the market does not receive a commission on work sold during the event.
"We've also redone the layout of the market," she says, "so there's more space for artists and visitors. It's been the major challenge of our success, how to comfortably accommodate all these people."
Yet McCutcheon is happy with the way the market has evolved in its short span of existence. "The event has such a special flavor to it," she says. "We're transforming Milner Plaza into a real folk art market. The booths are decorated. There's a gorgeous awning over the entrance. It definitely won't be like being on Museum Hill on a regular day."


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David Akers (1975/88): From this issue to the end of the series, every issue in the Saint-Gaudens series is a major rarity. The 1929 is the least rare of the group, but it is still very difficult to locate in every Mint State grade. There does not seem to be an appreciable difference in rarity from MS-60 to MS-63 since there are as many choice Mint State examples of this issue in existence as there are minimal Mint State ones. I have seen only a few really exceptional quality 1929 double eagles, coins that were definitely better than MS-65, but I know of at least two in prominent private collections that have strong claim to grading full MS-67. However, I have seen more super examples of the 1931 and 1932 than I have of the 1929, so it may come as a surprise to some that one is probably more likely to be able to find an MS-65+ or better 1931 or 1932 than a similar quality 1929.
The 1929 is nearly always very sharply struck. The typical specimen is fully frosty and has very good lustre and color. Most specimens are a medium to rich greenish gold or yellow gold color, sometimes with faint rose or orange overtones. Copper stains are often seen on this issue.
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The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Law and Human Rights Sector working committee Ð which includes representation from the AIDS Law Project, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, the Legal Resources Centre, the South African Human Rights Commission, the South African Medical Association, the Legal Aid Board, Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre and the private legal profession Ð welcomes SANAC's endorsement of the national HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa 2007-2011 ("the NSP").
In particular, we welcome the leadership provided for this process by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Dr Nomonde Xundu, chief director of HIV & AIDS, TB and STIs in the national Department of Health.
The development, finalisation and adoption of the NSP can ensure the end of a period of confusion, conflict and recrimination regarding HIV/AIDS policy. It marks the beginning of a new chapter of national consensus in respect of the objectives of HIV prevention and treatment programmes as well as the strategies, policies and laws that are required to reach these objectives. If fully and robustly implemented, the NSP will provide an opportunity for the country to strengthen its ethical, social and legal fabric and to draw significant additional public and private sector funding to meeting the needs of the poor and vulnerable.
Unambiguous commitments
In relation to HIV/AIDS in particular, we note and endorse the NSP's unambiguous commitment to:
Costing of the plan.
We welcome the preliminary costing of the NSP Ð done with the direct involvement of the Treasury. This is a first for the provision of health care in South Africa and is an example that should be followed in respect of all other health care services that our country is constitutionally required to provide. In particular, we note that the NSP has been costed by first identifying the HIV-related services that need to be provided, rather than by working within already allocated budgets. (Page 144)
The costing of R45 billion Ð for an initial five years and largely in respect of the main components of the NSP Ð provides a major challenge to our country. If indeed allocated to implementing the NSP, this amount will represent a massive additional investment in care and social support. But, as the Deputy President has correctly said, the first challenge is to ensure that existing budgetary allocations are fully utilized. This is not just a challenge for government but for all of civil society.
Keep up the Momentum
The Law and Human Rights sector of SANAC, calls on all people in South Africa Ð and indeed throughout the world Ð carefully to study the NSP and to understand its challenges and implications. We call on all providers of legal services in South Africa to identify the roles they can and should play in its implementation, as well as to recognize the potential of the NSP to act as a catalyst in ensuring much greater access to, and the availability and affordability of, legal services.
The NSP provides government with a challenge, as well as an opportunity Ð once and for all Ð to move beyond the conflict of the past. We call on Cabinet to act swiftly in respect of the policy decisions identified by the NSP and the national Department of Health to move rapidly on those areas that are squarely within its jurisdiction. Significant momentum and commitment has been established under the leadership of the Deputy President and Deputy Minister of Health in the last six months. This momentum must be strengthened and sustained.
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Revealed: What the 9/11 attacks started
Author: Destruction 'in a single hour' evidence of beginning of end
In striking alignment with two bestsellers, Jonathan Cahn's "The Harbinger" and "The Isaiah 9/10 Judgment" documentary, a brand-new book provides startling evidence the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, were a prophetic judgment on America.
And the book contends the surprise attacks literally set in motion two of the Bible's most critical end-time prophecies.
Written by James F. Fitzgerald, creator of the historic "WatchWORD Bible New Testament" – a 10-year project to put God's word on video, "The 9/11 Prophecy" recounts his remarkable testimony that New York City received warning of an imminent judgment 14 months before 9/11. The city was warned, he says, that "a surprise attack in a single hour" would be a sign pointing to prophetic events described in chapter 18 of the book of Revelation.
In July 2000, Fitzgerald and his team released "The Book of Revelation" at a secular film festival at Madison Square Garden. Their 110-minute feature was the first word-for-word production of the Bible's most famous prophetic book. It took 10 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete. More than 500 scenes were created in computers to convey the fantastic biblical imagery.
"Then the week before we went to the festival," says Fitzgerald, "as I reviewed our master for any problems, the Lord suddenly spoke to me through a verse of scripture in chapter 18. It said, 'This was the greatest city ever.'
"That verse caught my attention because here we were preparing to go to the media capital of the world in a matter of days. That also caused me to remember a book from the 1980s that had predicted the Lord's imminent fiery destruction of New York. I hadn't read the book and didn't think it made sense in the way that God worked, without giving preliminary warnings and judgments, but I decided to go restudy the chapter.
"What I soon discovered stunned me. In chapter 18, three different groups described the Lord's judgment on the great city of Babylon. In each case, every one of these groups fit the description of New York City more than any other city on the planet," he said.
Here's your chance to find out what led up to the 9/11 terror attacks and what they mean for America in the endtimes.
"I came away thinking if the Lord is ever going to judge Babylon as Scripture foretold, surely He must also have to judge New York at some point in the future. It was such an amazing 'type' of Babylon. I knew in spite of its doing many good things, the city had been complicit in so many things that were wrong in our country and the world."
Fitzgerald then wondered when such a judgment might happen.
"No sooner did I ask myself that question," he says, "than I realized we were releasing 'The Book of Revelation' not just at any random time, but right at the New Millennium. Because of Y2K, the Millennium had been a time when many people were naturally concerned about what the future might hold, and here we were releasing this famous prophetic book about the end of the world and the second coming. How providential was that!
"Not only that, my next thought was 'The Book of Revelation' was being released in New York of all places, that particular city in the whole world that most reflected Babylon. Surely these two providences weren't just coincidence. They were too significant."
At that moment Fitzgerald says he was reminded of Jonah's story in the Old Testament and how the prophet was sent to warn Nineveh of judgment and went a day's journey into the center of the city. As the author recounts, the Lord made it clear to him that He had opened a door for them at Madison Square Garden in the center of the city – just like Jonah in Nineveh – because He would speak to New York in a still small voice through His Word, warning of an impending judgment.
"If that were true," says Fitzgerald, "my next thought was that such a judgment would need to reflect chapter 18 in some way or people would never recognize it when it came for what it was. In that chapter three times it repeats that Babylon's judgment came 'in a single hour.' The only thing I could see to fit that that would be a surprise attack with tall buildings falling, fire and smoke visible from sea, and many people killed in a short time. It was dreadful to contemplate."
He then shared all this with his team.
"There is so much more I tell in the book," the author says. "I hardly scratch the surface here. When 9/11 struck just 430 days after our premier, it proved to be an astonishing reflection of the events in chapter 18. The first building to fall collapsed in only 56 minutes – an amazing reflection of 'in a single hour her judgment will come.' And who would have believed it?
"I carefully document a dozen other specific examples from chapter 18 in 'The 9/11 Prophecy.' After the attack, a number of commentators did see the connection, as well, but in our case, we didn't recognize it after the fact. God had sent us to the city with this warning before it ever happened."
Fitzgerald also describes how the Lord confirmed his mission in three striking ways after the attack.
"The first of these confirmations was absolutely staggering to me. My wife's ancestors had owned the World Trade Center property – Ground Zero of the attack in New York – for almost 100 years at the city's founding. I was astonished! This was the same land on which the towers stood and also St. Paul's Chapel that played such a key role in 'The Harbinger,' by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. The towers were built over a street named after my wife's original Dutch ancestor. Half of Dey Street still remains," he said.
Incredibly, Fitzgerald tells how these three confirmations form a pattern of exactly where, how and when the attack would strike. But as he later realized, he understood the purpose of these extraordinary confirmations for encouragement to strengthen his resolve to write 'The 9/11 Prophecy' – despite the opposition he would face from various quarters for what he says in the book about 9/11 and the future of America and Islam. He believed the Lord was continuing to guide him.
"When 9/11 struck in the first year of the New Millennium, with its sheer magnitude, high visibility, and shock to our nation – the world's super power, I was convinced it must have even more significance than I'd imagined. Knowing with certainty as I did that the attack was a judgment, I quickly saw why it was also purposely connected to Revelation and the endtimes," he said.
In the book's prologue, Fitzgerald writes: "Not only had God's judgment been a surprise attack and a prophetic sign as I had believed, but it had proved to be a powerful catalyst. The spectacular strike on America by just 19 jihadists in the first year of the New Millennium had turned the course of history in a single hour. God's judgment on 9/11 had begun the endtimes."
Describing the last third of the book, Fitzgerald said: "I devote the final nine entire chapters to showing from scripture, history and current events exactly how this audacious surprise attack initiated two famous prophecies. I give mountains of evidence that 9/11 was God's terrible catalyst to begin 'the endtime generation' that Jesus foretold on Olivet. I also know many Christians have long wondered why we don't see the United States in the endtimes in 'Revelation' – a nation as great and powerful as we currently are – and these chapters give the answer. Chapter 20 alone, detailing America's hidden role in prophetic scripture, will amaze people and open many eyes. It's worth the price of the book by itself. I also cover Islam's role in the endtimes and the coming of a Muslim Antichrist who must be alive even now to be of age at the proper time in this generation.
"By God's grace, I've written these things as a witness and a 'watchman on the wall' that He sent to New York with His warning before 9/11. God used our production of His holy Word to warn of an event that would begin the endtime generation in history. I believe He's given me this testimony as a platform so people can know for a fact that 9/11 was a judgment on our nation. 'The Harbinger' with its amazing application of Isaiah 9:10 to the events that have followed 9/11 is another witness," he said.
"And if God was moved to bring a judgment on the United States of America as severe as the attacks of 9/11 and we have not repented of what led Him to do that in the first place, what does it mean for our future? Clearly, it means we are still a nation under wrath – as hard as that is for people to really grasp or accept. All that is happening to our nation now that is so troublesome can be traced to this single fact – and it will not go away," he said.
"However, America is also the world's sole super power. If God is preparing to bring down the 'world's indispensible nation' to quote Madeline Albright, what does that mean for the rest of the globe? There will be no where else to turn. As I show in 'The 9/11 Prophecy,' our inevitable fall will fulfill biblical prophecy and lead to an Islamic Antichrist on the world stage in this generation. The attack by Muslim jihadists on 9/11 was the opening salvo in their battle to re-establish the caliphate – but in our God's great providence, it was really the beginning of the birth pangs before Jesus returns. This is a book every believer needs to read."
"The 9/11 Prophecy," published by WND Books, is available now at the WND Superstore signed by Jim Fitzgerald.
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Kcal 518 Fat 30.2g Fat(sats) 18.3g Carbs 55.4g (per 100.0g)
Not a week seems to by without some sort of 'New' product coming out here in the UK at the moment. Recent product launches such as the Galaxy Bubbles, Twix Fino and Cadbury Spots V Stripes bars have all been announced in the press, but the bar I am featuring today was one that caught me totally off guard whilst shopping in Tesco. Indeed, just last week when I was on the look for yet another new product (Cadbury Wishes - review coming Saturday!), I found this new Galaxy Smooth Truffle bar minding it's own business sitting amongst all the other Galaxy variants. On the wrapper the bar came described as 'milk chocolate with a chocolate truffle filling' and whilst not explicitly stating it was manufactured there it had Poland down as it's first point of contact. This Polish connection had me wondering if these bars have been imported as a WIGIG ("when it's gone, it's gone"), or whether they have been rolled out in Tesco first like the Galaxy Cookie Crumble as Tesco customer exclusive!? I guess time will tell until we hear from Mars!
The bar came in a 135.0g form that I took in to work in order to get a few second opinions. As you can see above the wrapper was aligned to the rest of the Galaxy range with the variant being solely differentiated by the secondary blue colours and very subtle on-pack branding (it could be easily missed don't you think!). My suspicions that this might not be a UK manufactured bar were further raised by the size and shape of the Galaxy blocks. In the UK this has changed many a time down the years, but I had never seen them shaped like this before - not being a frequent Galaxy consumer I could well be wrong in my thinking here, please feel free to chip in. Regardless the chocolate looked nice nonetheless and the truffle centre appeared clearly visible and lighter in viscosity when the blocks were cross sectioned.
In regards to aromas this chocolate was very similar to all other Galaxy products in that it didn't really offer much aside from a mild set of sweet chocolate flavours. Rather that go in to great detail about how this chocolate tasted, it is probably best you just head to my review of the original Galaxy chocolate bar I wrote a few years ago (See HERE). As you may have guessed the truffle filling was identical in taste to the harder, outer chocolate and brought no real flavour progression of any note. The chocolate was still sinfully creamy tasting and delivered a smooth, sweet cocoa set of flavours, but it was ultimately a little disappointing that the truffle filling had nothing else to offer. Myself and some of my fellow tastees did note that the chocolate did seem a touch more sugary than at previous times we had tried Galaxy down the years, but this was perhaps us paying too closer attention to detail - ultimately the chocolate was still very much to our liking. Speaking about the texture of the chocolate, I personally thought this 'Smooth Truffle' format was more of a hindrance than it was beneficial. Ergonomically (that's a big word haha!) the blocks weren't quite optimised, as they were just a little to big to place in the mouth all in one go. This meant it was required for the blocks to be bitten in to, which was obviously not a thing that was best doing given the nature of the truffle proposition. Casting issues aside this bar still offered a typical Galaxy chocolate experience that was relatively satisfying when eaten in sensibly sized portions.
Overall I have probably pulled out more negatives than I should have done with this product, however it was easier to pull out reasons why Galaxy perhaps shouldn't have bothered with this variant rather than coming up with reasons why it was a stroke of genius. If you think about the Galaxy truffles that you get in packs of Mars Celebrations, the reason they work so well is because those pieces are perfect for just popping in the mouth and letting them melt. Unfortunately the thinner, longer format of these blocks pieces just simply didn't work in quite the same way. Compared to the normal Galaxy bar, these Smooth Truffle blocks melted at twice the pace, offered no further enhancements to the taste and didn't have the elegance of individual chocolate truffles. When I asked the other five people I tried these with whether they would consider buying this bar themselves they all unanimously said 'no' citing the main reason as being they saw little reason to buy it over a normal Galaxy milk chocolate bar. At the end of the day I would still rate this as a decent enough mass produced milk chocolate offering, but I can't see it sticking around for long as it doesn't deliver a unique selling point worth buying in to.
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Contemporary scribes are regularly lambasted for writing too few roles for women. It's even rarer to find female riches in the classics, so a National Theater revival of Thomas Middleton's full-blown Jacobean tragedy, with three juicy female leads, should be cause for celebration. Alas, Marianne Elliott's production has shimmer but too little substance.
Twice-widowed, wealthy Livia (Harriet Walter) plays power games with other people's lives. She arranges for the Duke of Florence (simultaneously icy and sleazy Richard Lintern) to bed Bianca (Lauren O'Neil) who has only just run away with nerdy clerk Leantio (Samuel Barnett). Livia also pimps unwitting Isabella (Vanessa Kirby) into her uncle's bed. But when Livia too falls in lust with Leantio, everything unravels. Jealousies fuel power struggles that, as befits a Jacobean tragedy, climax in an orgy of bloody revenge.
The final, highly stylized sequence of blood-letting, written in the form of a Masque, is largely responsible for the play being so rarely staged. Elliott's bravura answer to the problem is to re-imagine it as a five-minute dance of death with the entire cast in what is nothing short of a full-scale production number aboard the revolving set on a non-stop spin.
Dazzling though this finale is, it also encapsulates a production that's manifestly too in thrall to its design concept at the expense of the play's ideas.
The 17th-century Florentine court has been relocated to the fashionista Italy of "La Dolce Vita," replete with wasp-waisted women and a sax-and-vibraphone period-style score.
This historic parallel neatly points up the era's love of excess that is at war with the strict constraint of Catholic society, but it's far from original. More problematically still, while Lez Brotherston's grand black and silver sets and chic 1950s costumes have self-conscious period glamour, they evoke little danger and less sex.
Fatally, sexual chemistry is almost entirely missing. Although the actors eat each other up in would-be passionate clinches, their efforts never generate any heat. Thus the crucial jealousies never catch fire so the plot feels like a series of contrivances.
Nor does the pain make real impact. In her impressive stage debut, O'Neil grows in strength as Bianca, but it barely registers that she is not just seduced by the Duke but actually raped (off-stage). And despite the creation of a visual world — albeit with occasional outbursts of consciously anachronistic costume choices — the unusually slow pace creates a sense of performances in isolation.


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by Peter Gaffney, Alisa Curran & Claudio Ragazzi; copyright 2004-2005;Great Blue Hills; CJar Music Publishing (ASCAP)
You never know
What you will come across
When you go across a bridge.
You'll never see the view
From a mountaintop.
Cross a bridge
To a special place.
Take a look around and then
Cross it back and go the other way.
There's a whole new world
Waiting for you.
To get there all you've got to do
Is cross that bridge
You and me, hand in hand.
Cross a bridge
(Cross the bridge )
To a special place
(To a special place)
Take a look
(Take a look around and then)
Around and then
(Cross it back the other way)
Cross it back
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
The other way
(And it takes you back home)
And it takes you back,
Back home again.
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text: Power Hour: Will Lower Prices Back Down Global Production? January 3, 2014 08:30 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email While shifts will take place among crops, don't look for global crop acreage to contract. "Once we build a factory in agriculture, it stays in production," says Michael Boehlje, ag economist at Purdue University. In just the past eight years, global harvested acreage has increased by 147 million acres for 13 major crops, and the big two have been corn, up 77.1 million acres, and soybeans, up 42.9 million. The five fastest growing regions for boosting crop acreage since 2005 have been South America, up 40.2 million acres; Former Soviet Union, up 28 million; East Asia, up 21.7 million; North America, up 18.3 million; and South Asia, up 15.5 million acres. "Now we have a bigger factory and demand growth is slowing down, so we have to figure out how to absorb that production," Boehlje says. "That's why I'm concerned that maybe we won't be able to see price recovery as we'd like." Without major cutbacks in acreage, the only way to "sop up that additional production is demand growth," he says. Boehlje spoke at a recent 2014 Purdue outlook webinar. One key reason why Boehlje does not look for a contraction in global crop acres is to take a lesson from the 1980s and 1990s, a period of low prices and adjustment. Striking is that this followed a huge build-up of global crop acreage by 243 million from 1973-82, even more than they past eight years. "We didn't shut anything down because agriculture is a high fixed-cost industry," he says. Looking at major global competitors who have greatly increased corn and soybean acreage since 2005, the variable cost of production is very close comparing the U.S. with Ukraine and South America, says Michael Langemeier, Purdue ag economist. In addition to U.S. weather problems in recent years, a key driver behind record grain and oilseed prices that have brought on more global production in recent years has been U.S. ethanol demand, along with the dramatic increase in China's imports. Ethanol demand has plateaued, however, notes Purdue economist Chris Hurt. "The bottom line is that we're probably going to flat line on ethanol." Actually, he says the peak in ethanol corn demand was the 2010/11 marketing year. Still, he's more optimistic on ethanol demand in the short run than USDA, but not by a lot. USDA pegs corn ethanol demand at 4.95 billion bushels for the 2013/14 marketing year, while Hurt predicts 5 billion bushels. "With cheap corn, we're going to have cheap ethanol that's going to go out of the country." With little if any growth in ethanol demand likely in the short run, growing out of overproduction will require growth from more traditional corn demand sources: exports and the livestock sector. "We're likely to see expansion across the board in the livestock sector," says Jim Mintert, Purdue ag economist. "The brightest star in agriculture the next two to three years might be the livestock sector," he adds. The growth won't only be in the U.S., he says, but globally because of the growth of middle income consumers. Livestock sector growth both here and abroad will help grain producers, he adds. Even with the drop in grain prices, "this is not a doomsday scenario that we are suggesting, but a transition to a period of tighter margins and most of us in agriculture have been through before," Mintert says. Because of that, he says the need to manage input costs is going to become extraordinarily important. Langemeier looks for variable corn costs to be down 3% to 5% for 2014. With the goal of reducing costs, Boehlje advises producers to aggressively negotiate with input suppliers as well as land owners. "This pie is shrinking and we have to talk about how to share that reduced pie. We shouldn't expect producers to have to take all the reduction." Back to news


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The Calgary Flames will try to make it three straight wins tonight as they continue a three game road trip at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit (5:30 pm, Sportsnet Flames and The FAN 960). It's a place that used to be absolute death/kryptonite/guaranteed failure for the Flames, but lately, that hasn't been the case at all.
Riding a two game win streak, it's F'in Game Day, and I'm very intrigued to see how the visitors perform. After a fairly solid showing in a 1-0 overtime win in Nashville, the Flames face a different opponent that will force Calgary to captialize on puck possesion. Calgary has faced some early season tests, but the 3-1-1 Red Wings register as the stiffest to date. Here's Robert's Detroit preview for good reading as well.
The Lineup
Calgary goes with the exact same lineup they did Tuesday in Nashville, with Miikka Kiprusoff getting the start in net. Newcomer Henrik Karlsson will start Friday in Columbus. To refresh, it looked like this:
Alex Tanguay-Matt Stajan-Jarome Iginla
Niklas Hagman-Olli Jokinen-Brendan Morrison
Curtis Glencross-Mikael Backlund-Rene Bourque
Craig Conroy-Stefan Meyer-Tim Jackman
Mark Giordano-Cory Sarich
Robyn Regehr-Ian White
Jay Bouwmeester-Steve Staios
Newly claimed Brendan Mikkelson joined the team in Detroit yesterday, he'll be the seventh defenceman sitting in the press box. Brett Sutter will join him as a healthy scratch. I liked the line of Glencross-Backlund-Bourque on Tuesday night, and once again, we're seeing the value of Curtis. He was the driving force when grouped with Backlund and Jackman, and was that same force subbing 17 for 15.
I don't mind the Kiprusoff start tonight, it makes the most sense in my mind. It's not so much an opponent thing in my mind, it's more a rhythm thing. If there wasn't a back to back, he'd be playing in this game, so throw him in knowing you have the rest advantage Friday with starting Karlsson.
The Opponent
A fairly good start for the boys in the Motor City, kicking things off at 3-1-1. They do battle with injuries tonight, as they have for most of the early going, and seemingly all of last season. Brian Rafalski (knee) and Jonathan Ericsson (back) will both be absent on the Detroit blueline, while Justin Abdelkader (ribs) and Kris Draper (hernia) will miss time up front. Detroit does get good news, as Johan Franzen will return to the lineup after missing one game with a concussion.
Who's hot? Well, who else but Todd Bertuzzi, the former Flames forward (nice alliteration). Big Bert has points in four of his first 5 games. One thing to watch will be the Detroit powerplay. Going over the numbers this morning, their 4-24 mark at 16.7% is well below what we expect from them. The loss of Rafalski has obviously hurt, but if the Flames take five penalties like they did Tuesday, the Red Wings man advantage may be primed to break out.
The Story
It's the first meeting between the teams this season, and it has the makings to be a pretty entertaining game. Calgary played Nashville strong, not letting the Predators patient gameplan swerve them away from their plan of attack. The Flames out waited the Preds and struck in overtime thanks to Rene Bourque.
Detroit plays a much stronger puck possession game, and so Calgary will have to do more with the puck when they have it, especially when they go an extended time period with it. I didn't feel the Flames were getting away from generating chances against Nashville, more that it was just a strongly played game at even strength for the Predators. Calgary looks to win three straight for the first time this season.
Of Note
Detroit has the edge all time at home to the Flames, posting a 37-21-11 record…they're just 5-4-1 in their last ten games when hosting Calgary, though. Last season, the teams split the series with Calgary winning twice in Detroit and the Red Wings pulling the same feat at the Saddledome.
With the start tonight, Miikka Kiprusoff will pass Colin Patterson for 26th on the Flames all time games played list.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University students have done it again, landing six coveted DownBeat Student Music Awards for the third straight year.
"The efforts of our students and our faculty are simply world class," says Tom Knific, WMU professor of music and director of the jazz studies program. "We could not be more proud."
Results of DownBeat's 37th annual Student Music Awards are announced in the June issue, which is now on newsstands. Knific notes that guitarist Bryan Blowers won the same award he won last year, while Nich Mueller is attached to three awards as a member of Four Corners and for his composition, "Mythic." New faculty members Drs. Andrew Rathbun and Lisa Coons won their first awards since arriving at WMU. In addition, the WMU Jazz Orchestra pocketed its fourth award and the University brought home its third Latin Jazz award in the past five years.
The winners
This year's WMU honorees, along with the category of their award and their director or professor, are:
- Four Corners, Small Vocal Jazz Group, Undergraduate College Winner, Tom Knific, director.
- Bryan Blowers of Portage, Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist (guitar), Undergraduate College Winner, Tom Knific, professor.
- Aaron Garcia Band, Blues/Pop/Rock Group, Undergraduate College Winner, Dr. Lisa Coons, director. Aaron Garcia is from Three Rivers.
- Four Corners, Blues/Pop/Rock Group, Undergraduate College Outstanding Performances, Tom Knific, director.
- WMU Jazz Orchestra, Latin Group, Graduate College Outstanding Performances, Tom Knific, director.
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Pharmacyclics Announces Date of Financial Results for Three and Six Months Ended December 31, 2012 and Conference Call
Feb 07, 2013, 04:29 EST
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: PCYC) today announced that it will report financial results and recent developments for its three and six months ended December 31, 2012 after the NASDAQ Market closes on Thursday, February 14, 2013. The Company will conduct a conference call and audio webcast at 4:30 p.m ET on the same day. As previously announced, the Company changed its fiscal year end from June 30 to December 31, effective December 31, 2012. As a result, the six months ended December 31, 2012 represent a transition period, with the next fiscal year covering the period from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013.
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Pharmacyclics® is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer and immune mediated diseases. Our mission and goal is to build a viable biopharmaceutical company that designs, develops and commercializes novel therapies intended to improve quality of life, increase duration of life and resolve serious unmet medical healthcare needs; and to identify promising product candidates based on scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner and pursue commercialization and/or development partners when and where appropriate.
Presently, Pharmacyclics has three product candidates in clinical development and several research molecules in lead optimization. We are committed to high standards of ethics, scientific rigor, and operational efficiency as we move each of these programs to viable commercialization.
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Neil Young fans pack downtown Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT -- Downtown Bridgeport was rocking Tuesday night as concert-goers flocked to see Neil Young and Patti Smith at the Webster Bank Arena, filling restaurants, tying up traffic and creating a welcome buzz in the heart of the city.
The show closed Young's first tour since 2004 with his on-and-off again group Crazy Horse and drew fans from all over the Northeast, from Maine to Maryland.
The legendary guitarist, singer and songwriter was joined Tuesday night by art-punk goddess Patti Smith and opening act Everest.
"It's the last show of the tour, so I had to come," said Mike Carson, 54, as he strolled down Main Street toward the arena. "There are only so many opportunities to see him play, and I want to take advantage of them all."
Carson, who lives on Long Island and went to Young's show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn Monday night, said he's a diehard fan of the Canadian-born legend and was heading to his first show at the Bridgeport arena.
Tickets were general admission, which is rare for Webster Bank Arena shows. Arena spokesman Michael Foley said people started lining up around 2:30 p.m. to get the best spots in front of the stage, which helped traffic a bit.
But there were still lines of cars coming off Interstate 95 before the show. Around 7 p.m., the lines were short outside the arena, but they got progressively longer as show time for Smith grew closer.
Everest played to a few thousand fans, but the seats were mostly filled by the time Smith hit the stage.
A few blocks away, outside Tiago's Restaurant on State Street, John Gray, 47, of Monroe, smoked a cigarette and said the Young concert drew him to the Bridgeport arena for the first time in awhile.
"The last concert I went to here was a few years ago," said Gray, who came with his wife and two friends. "I got tickets as soon as I heard Neil was coming here. I'm already having fun, there are people all around, the food here is great."
Concertgoers spilled out of Tiago's, and packed other restaurants, including Two Boots pizza, which blasted only Neil Young songs through its sound system, starting at happy hour.
"It's an awesome atmosphere," said Nancy Roberts outside of Two Boots. "I never miss an opportunity to see Neil play, I can't wait to get in there."
Two Boots employees said the crowd was larger than normal, including when other concerts have been in the city.
The large crowd downtown was joined by a noticeably increased presence of police, including patrol officers stationed at several street corners and the city's mobile command unit, parked on Bank Street.
Police said traffic was heavy, but not much more than a typical concert, and no out of the ordinary incidents were reported.


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A Radical Idea For Managing Truck Drivers: Treat Them Better
Truck driver turnover is always chronic, but it's getting especially urgent now that the economy is gaining steam and railroads are losing it. Demand for trucking is rising.
But long haul trucking is a fragmented industry that pays its truck drivers in cents per mile. It generally doesn't pay for the time they sit around waiting for shippers to load or unload or any of the other inconveniences of the job. That's just the way it is.
So a recent blog post by trucking company Ryder System was unusual, to say the least. For starters, it sounded more like Silicon Valley than trucking. "Drivers are a precious resource," wrote William P. Townsend, Ryder's Group Director of Labor Strategy. Once on board, "the next step is to keep them happy and loyal."
Understand this is not an industry that mollycoddles drivers. It hardly trains them. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is calling for mandatory training and driver education for all entry-level truck drivers. Drivers are paid when the wheels are turning. They aren't paid for time (or miles) lost because of traffic, construction, a break-down or delays–often for hours–caused by shippers or receivers. They often miss holidays, birthdays and weekends. They never know when, because delays and route changes are so unpredictable.
So how does Ryder propose to keep truck drivers happy? Improve their quality of life. Some companies promise truckers predictable time at home, Mr. Townsend says, citing a survey that identifies lack of it as a top sticking point. Make trucking a career path and not just a job, with defined expectations and goals and the ability to transition into other positions at the company, he suggests. Sound crazy? Not so much, when you consider that David Abney, who becomes chief executive of United Parcel Service Inc. Sept. 1, drove a truck early in his career.
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The Blind Watchmaker, knowledgably narrated by author Richard Dawkins, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the 18th-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte.
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For the past seven years in the Middle East, Palestinian leadership has been deeply divided: Hamas rules the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority rules the West Bank. Well, today, they announced a deal that could bring them back together, but that could derail another set of talks, the peace talks with Israel. NPR's Emily Harris is in Jerusalem. She joins us now. Hi there, Emily.
EMILY HARRIS, BYLINE: Hi, Audie.
CORNISH: So what would this agreement actually do?
HARRIS: Well, the plan is to form a new Palestinian government, one government that would rule both the West Bank and Gaza. It would include people from all political factions, including Hamas. Likely, it would be technocrats at first because the next step, a very key step, would be to hold new elections both for the president of the Palestinian Authority and for the legislature. Elections were supposed to be held four years ago, but they weren't largely because of this split. And the government is supposed to be formed within five weeks, and the elections held not sooner than six months from then.
CORNISH: But how likely is it that these plans will actually go through?
HARRIS: That is the million-dollar question. There's a lot of skepticism, a lot of wait and see. There also is some hope. Palestinians would like to see their government unified again. Israeli analysts point out that the divide between Hamas and Fatah is not just political. It's that there's differences at their core philosophies. Hamas is Islamist. Fatah is secular. But at this point, they are both in new corners, corners that they haven't necessarily been in before. Hamas, ruling the Gaza Strip, is very isolated, especially isolated because of the change of government in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood government that was ousted last year was a Hamas supporter and the new Egyptian government is not.
The Palestinian Authority President Abbas has not been getting traction in negotiations with Israel. He's also been facing old internal rivalries. And if he could deliver a united Palestinian government, that would give him a lot of points.
CORNISH: When it comes to these peace talks with Israel - I mean, you've got the Palestinian Authority doing the negotiating here. But Hamas, they haven't given up on violence as a way to solve the conflict. I mean, how is this affecting the peace talks?
HARRIS: Well, it's already affected them in one concrete way. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tonight canceled a negotiation's meeting because of this unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas. He said that the Palestinian Authority must choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. The Palestinian Authority President Abbas says there's no contradiction between the unity agreement and continuing negotiations. And he says, he's still aiming for an independent Palestinian state.
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I was thinking about timescales much longer than decades.
High loiter time is nice and all but this is getting a bit silly.
Veering slightly back to the thread topic, if I wanted to make an always-on drone I would be hoping for better solar and lighter-than-air/neutrally-bouyant materials. And not a blimp--I'm thinking a big wing-span covered with solar cells, and a fuselage that was hard vacuum on the inside--get it light enough overall and you could end up with something that wanted to naturally float at 10k ft (or 20 or 30, whatever was appropriate), and worked forever.
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DETROIT – The Detroit Federation of Teachers says it might sue Detroit Public Schools over the evaluation and hiring process of teachers for the 2012-2013 school year, according to the Detroit Free Press.
DPS laid off all 4,100 of its teachers and has said it will conduct job interviews with those who want to return as per changes to the state teacher tenure law, which prohibits hiring based on seniority, the Free Press reported.
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The BBC has released the results of its experiment with in-text links, and it seems the corporation is still not sure how to deal with the issue of linking out from its articles.
The BBC Internet Blog reports on the results of the experiment, which used the Apture service to add links to the text of articles. 90% of the feedback received during the two week trial.
Having looked at the experiment in action, I'm surprised the BBC had so much positive feedback, though there there were 306 negative out of 1200 comments altogether.
The way the BBC went about linking out during this trial was overcomplicated, and pretty poor for the user experience. Instead of just sending the user to an external site, the links opened a pop up window with a preview of the website.
Click enough links and your screen could eventually look like this:
In some cases, you couldn't even visit the website if you wanted to; it seemed like the BBC was determined to keep you from leaving its site, while it didn't link out to a particularly wide selection of external sites.
So what is the BBC going to do next?
According to the blog, the BBC is now going to look again at its links policy, though it does say that:
"In the meantime, we're talking to Apture to explore whether it's possible to extend their product to deliver the functionality you liked and to answer your concerns.'"
This seems to suggest that the BBC intends to continue with the popup previews, and that it isn't considering using plain old text links, which perhaps means that the corporation is reluctant to pass on link juice,
The BBC Trust's 2008 service review contained this passage, criticising the website's linking policy:
"Linking to external sites needs to be more effective. We are
disappointed to find that bbc.co.uk's provision of links to external sites is not
leading to more click-throughs, despite this being identified as a priority in the
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"We are asking BBC management to find ways of increasing the
effectiveness of its provision of links and ensuring that bbc.co.uk helps its users
navigate to external sites from all parts of the site."
What the BBC should do to achieve this is start adding simple text links, and to a wider range of websites than it used during its trial. Most internet users should be familiar with the way links work by now, and this is a less intrusive way of doing it than using pop-up previews.
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totally agree with your points. To differentiate between internal & external links they should do something like:
1. All external links should have a very inobtrusive icon next to them to designat that they go off-site.
2. First time someone clicks an external link, show a preview in a layer (not a popup window). At the bottom of the preview have a 'Visit this external site' link & a tickbox 'Always visit external sites'.
3. If you've ticked the tickbox previously, clicking external links just delivers you straight to those sites.
I checked out what CNN.com does, and they just provide a straight link out - simple and uncluttered:
They make a very slight distinction between an internal link (underlined) and an external link (not underlined); but there is no click or mouseover preview. To me, that just wreaks of in-text ads (like the double-underlined links in the MSNBC article here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28002891/). BBC doesn't have to make it so complicated and un-user friendly.
Hi all,
Thanks for your feedback! I'm surprised to see Apture cause such a stir here. Let me clarify some points about how Apture works
- First, I think there's a bit of a misconception. Apture isn't intended for linking to any arbitrary web pages. We are not trying to replace all links on the web or turn them into previews - not at all. Instead, we're trying to help the BBC tell more multimedia-rich, and contextualized stories. If you want to see reference content, or a video, or an image, or a document or interactive guides - why should you have to leave the page to see it? That type of content (specifically) adds to the story's richness and background. I'd argue that it's more relevant to see that content on the BBC's website than to run across it elsewhere - and it's easier too! I think that's where the overwhelmingly positive feedback (90%) came from. See my post on Apture's blog for a larger explanation:
- It is indeed possible to view the source web page of any Apture link, just click on the title text of any Apture window. It turns blue and underlined and when you hover over it to indicate that it's a link. This is great feedback that perhaps this isn't clear enough.
- Apture links are hand-selected, *not* automatically generated. They never link to pure advertising. The BBC editors used the software to select the phrases on the page they wished to link, and then selected content from Apture's Media Hub, allowing them to quickly source content from 25+ sources so it only takes a few seconds per link to add. We're trying to help journalists and storytellers enhance their stories.
- I agree that Apture should help feed Google juice, link love, all of that. But the reason Apture was so easy to implement on the BBC is because it's just one line of code (a <script> tag). That's it. It literally takes less than a few minutes to get started - so I wouldn't say they spent many tax dollars or time to do this. :) But because our script doesn't have access to the BBC's custom, internal CMS - there's no way we can rewrite the HTML to bake in the links. An extended, more integrated version of Apture for the BBC's CMS specifically would allow those links to exist in the HTML and feed google juice - we'd do this in a heartbeat.
- Finally, I'd say that information overload is information overload. Opening up six Apture windows isn't far different to me than opening up six different tabs. Either way there's going to be some clutter - we're just trying to make accessing that information just a little easier and more efficient. Hopefully more meaningful too.
All the best,
@ Kari I agree, I agree that the CNN way is simpler, though I'm not sure that a disctinction needs to be made between internal and external links.
I normally hover the cursor over the lnk and look at the URL at the bottom of the browser before I click, though with certain sites, I would trust that the sites linked to would be OK.
@Tristan Thanks for your comment. I'm not familiar with Apture, and it would be good to find out more about what you do.
My gripe is more with the BBC taking such a long time to start linking out when the rest of the web has been doing it for years. Interesting point about the link love, the BBC does seem to be reluctant to pass it on...
btw. "the BBC" actually should read "one area of BBC News." as this is a trial covering off just one specific area. The whole of the BBC as the BBC Trust recently identified has more to do in terms of the qaulity/volume of its external linking but outside of this bit of BBC News then there is a considerable amount of inline texting to external sites exactly as CNN et al. (Blogs, BBC Music for example).
See more on the external links on BBC Music here:
For more on the "link love" discussion then my colleague John O Donovan explains it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/knowing_when_to_go_1.html
Jem Stone, BBC.
We (http://www.linkxl.com) work with other news publishers in the US helping to monetize their content. The best way is to utilize a system that does not make a high call-to-action to the consumer and obstruct their origional intention to read the article. Editorial control and "mucking" up the article is not a wise move by the BBC.
My concern is that the accessibility is very poor for people with some user agents such as screen readers. The following is a brief review I wrote for an accessibility group in August 2008. I assume (or at least hope) that the exercise was a proof of concept and that the production code would be greatly improved.
"It's good for sighted users but the impementation is poor.
When a link is clicked, the contents of the popup are inserted into the DOM at the top of the <body> element, which means that a screen reader user is never going to find them. This sort of technique is fine but you must insert the contents of the popup immediately after the link that triggered the popup. That way it appears in the natural flow of the document.
If you view the generated source (the Accessibililty Toolbar does this) you will see that approximately 300 lines of styles have been inserted by means of JavaScript, which is not visible when viewing the source normally. This raises the page weight from 45kB to 170kB, and that's before any of the images and other linked files. It does this even if you don't click any of those links. If you're viewing the site on a low bandwidth connection such as a mobile device you had better turn of JavaScript if you want reasonable page loading times.
I have no idea why they didn't link to an external stylesheet that would be cached. The current implementation means that these 300 lines of styles get downloaded every time you load a new page."


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Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Diablo 3 won't link up with Battle.net, which means no cross-platform play using your profile on the PC side. Word comes from Blizzard community manager 'Vaeflare' speaking on the Battle.net forums, as spotted by Shacknews.
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I like dinners that require assembly, because you can usually make the parts at your own pace and in whatever order you like. Then, when it's time to sit down, most of your work is already done.
Assembled dishes also work well for family dinners. When my husband is away, dinner with my kids means the three of us in the kitchen. Two of us must be kept occupied and away from knives. This warm tuna salad proved a formidable match. My five-year-olds scrubbed the potatoes (and whatever else they could get their hands on) and helped shell the beans, giving me time to pull everything else together.
The entire dish can be prepared in two pans. Start the potatoes in a medium saucepan. They can be cooked ahead of time, and rewarmed; otherwise cook them first and leave them in a strainer while you finish everything else. Both beans can be blanched in salted water, in the same pot you used for the potatoes, and they can be cooked one after the other. Do the green beans first, scoop them out with a slotted spoon, and then add the cranberry beans. And if you can no longer get fresh cranberry beans, plan ahead and use dried.
Then all you have to do -- and all you need to pay attention to -- is the tuna. As it poaches in the oil (one of my favorite techniques, as you might have noticed!), the oil soaks up the fragrance of the herbs, garlic, and tuna, making a delicious dressing for the salad.
My kids loved the assembly part. One spread the potatoes, another the beans, while I pulled the warm tuna into pieces and spooned the oil over the salad. No whisked dressing is needed. After you dress with the oil, sprinkle with some sherry vinegar, and finish the dish with a flaky salt like Maldon, and some coarsely ground black pepper.
Serves 4
- 3/4 pound best quality tuna, about 2 inches thick
- 5 thyme sprigs
- 1 garlic clove
- About 1/3 cup olive oil
- Salt
- 12 baby potatoes, boiled with skins on, until tender
- 7 ounces thin green beans, topped and blanched
- 8 ounces cranberry beans, shelled (about 3/4 cup shelled) and boiled until just tender or dried cranberry beans (see note)
- 4 teaspoons sherry vinegar
- Freshly ground black pepper
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